A ZX Spectrum scene letter: Born Dead, Scorpion, and a New Year greeting
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A ZX Spectrum scene letter: Born Dead, Scorpion, and a New Year greeting

From: Sergius Puzzler^Proxium (Kovrov, Russia)

To: Unbeliver^SPEED co. (Samara, Russia)  ·  16 December 1998

Letter summary: A short note from Sergius Puzzler (SP), dated December 16, 1998, asking to save the source code of a new digitized-audio player for Vel and reporting a performance issue with MONSTR’s Born Dead disk magazine viewer on the Scorpion computer when music is enabled. The letter ends with a New Year greeting.

This is Sergius again. Please save the source code of the new digitized-audio player. Vel asked for it — he’s up to something. Also pass along to MONSTR (no offense) that the Born Dead disk magazine viewer doesn’t work on the Scorpion. More precisely, it lags when music is playing (both scrolling and music). It only runs at full frame rate in 48K mode. He should add a way to turn music off, or auto-disable it on slower machines. Otherwise everything’s fine! Write back! Greetings to everyone! SP. Dec 16, 1998 HAPPY NEW YEAR!